Stories of the Fallen - Adam Gachinsky

Rochester, New York

Adam Gachinsky served in World War 1 with the United States Army.  The enlistment was in April 1918, and the service was completed January 1919.

Adam Gachinsky was born in Turja, Russia in 1888. Before the war he was a resident of Rochester, N.Y. and was employed by the American Woodworking Machinery Company. 

Adam entered the service at Rochester, N. Y., April 4, 1918, at the age of 30 years. 

Adam served as a Private, and was assigned to 12th Company, 3rd Training Battalion, 153rd Depot Brigade; transferred to Company K, 310th Infantry on May 8, 1918; and then to Headquarters Company, 310th Infantry, June 18, 1918. 

Adam embarked overseas on May 20, 1918. Engaged in action at Thiaucourt and in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, where Adam was Wounded-In-Action. Adam subsequently died in an Army Hospital in France of bronchial pneumonia on January 1, 1919. 

Adam is buried in the St. Michael American Cemetery at Thiaucourt, France. 

Adam was 30 years old.

—Excerpt from World War Service Record of Rochester and Monroe County New York, Volume 1, Those Who Died for Us, Published by the City of Rochester, 1924, page 155.